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Re: Reddit needs help

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Post by risotto »

Jd wrote: post #229
risotto wrote: post #210

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I can't participate in reddit any more! No submission I make gets any traction. Any story I find interesting already has 500+ comments. If I add a comment, nobody replies or votes on it. It's just lost in the noise. I'm not looking to be an karma superstar, I just want a place to actively engage with some other Internet folks from time to time. Reddit got too big. Perhaps HN will one day too. I still browse reddit al…

Actually, I feel just the same way about HN. You have to spend a lot of time on HN to follow the development of conversations and have to get in early to accumulate karma. I'm happy with HN as a somewhat glorified newsfeed with interesting topical commentary from coders but as a place to actually engage with people the pace is too fast (i.e. like a newsfeed) and the subject matter too limited in scope, at least given…

Aye. Just wanted to let you know I did read your comment. Just a few days later :)

Re: Reddit needs help

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Post by b-e-p »

codexon wrote: post #141
axod wrote: post #35

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They have a userbase which is ridiculously hard to monetize (IMHO). I'd bet the % of adblock users on Reddit is way higher than the average. The Reddit crowd aren't your average mainstream user. It's a particular crowd (liberal anti-capitalism pro-cannabis etc etc) [Again, just my opinion] Also they really have very few adverts at all on the site, and those that are there, are tucked away not very noticable. Say you…

Last year I measured ~65% of visitors from Reddit had adblock. http://www.codexon.com/posts/the-percentage-of-people-using-...

That's only for people who visit your site, though, people from places like /r/programming. Let me tell you, there are divides between those who are savvy enough to understand places like /r/programming and those who aren't. I'd estimate reddit's overall adblock usage at being just the same as the rest of the news aggregation sites.

Re: Reddit needs help

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Post by mdwrigh2 »

kn0thing wrote: post #211
city41 wrote: post #84

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Although that is admirable, shouldn't they get themselves on solid financial footing before donating?

Sorry for the confusion here, but reddit's merch is produced by and for reddit's profit -- just sold via the same xkcd store as breadpig. I did run both (before leaving reddit) and only the profits of breadpig merch is donated.

Oh, interesting. Thanks for clearing that up. I think that could be made slightly clearer on the website, though as far as I'm concerned, supporting Reddit or supporting charities are both win situations, so it doesn't matter all that much.

Re: Reddit needs help

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Post by alexqgb »

What value, if any, can information from Reddit be used by Conde Nast to drive their larger business (i.e. selling ads)?

Not knowing anything about the deal (but knowing a bit about Conde's general disdain for the web) I'm still surprised that your biggest problem is an ad-sales framework.

At the same time, I always assumed that Reddit was one of the most future-forward components in Conde's portfolio, and that it could provide as much if not more intelligence value to its owners than it could via direct revenue.

This are totally off the cuff responses. I could easily be wrong about everything.

Re: Reddit needs help

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Post by zach »

nostrademons wrote: post #164
zach wrote: post #156

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Yeah, I'm just probably not being imaginative enough. Even if you give someone a tiny bit of status that says they're a member, that's what they're "paying for," even if it costs nothing. And all the psychic benefits just happen to be lurking behind that. I just can't believe this is where you go to before exhausting everything else, though. Just up and asking your customers to give you money like this has got to cha…

"Just up and asking your customers to give you money like this has got to change your relationship, just like lending or giving money to a friend, right?" When taken out of context, that sounds remarkably absurd. ;-) It's an interesting development, simply because most businesses throughout history have demanded that you give them money before you receive service. Or they bill you afterwards with the full force of la…

Yeah, I needed to weasel-ify it some more so it was clear I was talking about outright giving instead of giving in an exchange -- I probably should have just called it "donating" consistently. :)

The thing that's interesting is that they're clearly willing to go for the donation angle. Again, the line is so thin that you wonder why they don't just announce they're selling you a digital doodad for an inflated price with the understanding that it's essentially a donation. It's something that works for PBS selling $100 DVDs but maybe the worry is that it triggers the "outrageous price" receptor...

Re: Reddit needs help

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Post by Jd »

risotto wrote: post #251
Jd wrote: post #229

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Actually, I feel just the same way about HN. You have to spend a lot of time on HN to follow the development of conversations and have to get in early to accumulate karma. I'm happy with HN as a somewhat glorified newsfeed with interesting topical commentary from coders but as a place to actually engage with people the pace is too fast (i.e. like a newsfeed) and the subject matter too limited in scope, at least given…

Aye. Just wanted to let you know I did read your comment. Just a few days later :)

And I up-modded yours 6 days later :)
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